You Can Never Be Too Blonde!

(Maggie Sprague)

I met Maggie Sprague at Cocktails & Cupcakes, the Innocents at Risk fundraiser that was held at City Tavern Club a few weeks ago. She was set up in one of the private rooms, doing hair and make up for Kate Marie Grinold, Miss DC 2008. Maggie started doing Kate’s hair when Kate was only 16, so she has literally watched her grow into the intelligent, beautiful, poised and sweet young lady that she is today. Besides doing Miss DC’s hair, Maggie has several clients who regularly appear in magazines and runway shows. Maggie did hair for Beantown’s Fashion Week, while working in Boston for several years, and also did an episode of Ambush Makeover.

So Maggie and I bonded as we worked the door for the event. She told me about her life, and starting her own business. I told her that I give relationship advice, and she told me how she met her husband, and all about their wedding, and plans for the future.                              

Now, I’ve always advised friends with really long hair that they should have their hair cut by a female hair stylist with long hair. I feel like it takes a woman who appreciates long hair to cut it properly. I don’t think a man, or a woman who hasn’t had long hair would ever have the same appreciation for the time it takes to grow your hair, or the horror of a stylist cutting your hair too short. When we say we only want a half inch trimmed off our hair, we mean a half inch – not three inches!

Similarly, when Maggie told me that she specializes in blondes, that was all I needed to hear! Having come up with the silly, and now notorious name, “Blonde Charity Mafia” for a group of girls from BvB’s Team Blonde , who I selected to help me out with charity host committees ranging from the Corcoran 1869 Society to The Courage Cup, for better or worse, I am a proponent of blonde. For those who don’t know, “Blonde Charity Mafia” is no longer an inside joke, and is now being made into a reality show. We’ll see how real it ends up being!  I plan to blog about each episode, so stay tuned.

Anyhow, I digress. Maggie started telling me what she thought my hair needed, and I set up a time to see her that Saturday.  I have been getting highlights since I was 18 years old. Some (including a lady I babysat for in high school who outright told me so) may think that is too young, but when you want to stay blonde, you do what you have to do. Anyway, last year a hair stylist at a salon that will go nameless suggested that he do a dual process on my hair, instead of highlights. Well, it left my base strawberry blonde and the highlights were white.  My hair was completely fried. Some say you can never be too blonde. I disagree. You want to be the right blonde! So I was skeptical about doing anything other than highlights, but trusted Maggie because she was a blonde, and her natural color is very similar to mine. She did my hair, and I absolutely adore it. The outgrowth is much more natural, and I will be able to go two months between appointments.  I couldn’t be happier, and I’m thrilled to have found her.

If you’d like to find Maggie, you can schedule an appointment at (301) 907-6810. She works at Lux Studios, 4711 Montgomery Lane, Bethesda, MD 20814.

- Miss A